USA: Electrosonic Appoints Steve Leyland as Executive Chairman

Electrosonic, one of the world’s leading specialists for audio and video systems, recently appointed Steve Leyland as Executive Chairman, who has been a non-executive director and advisor on the Electrosonic Board since July 2015. Leyland brings a wealth of experience in the fields of audio-visual systems, unified communications and telecoms, which he acquired in leading positions at the Belgian Barco group, Polycom, Intel Corporation Europe and Dialogic Corporation in the USA, among others. He graduated in Electronics Engineering at Nottingham University. “Throughout my time on the Electrosonic Board as non-executive director, I have learnt a lot about Electrosonic and their values. I strongly endorse their philosophy of putting the customer at the heart of all operations. It will be an honor for me to become Executive Chairman and I look forward to being part of the team and continuing to grow the company,” commented Steve Leyland.

Philip Aminoff, who has served as Chairman of the Electrosonic Board for the last 14 years, remains a director of the board and chairman of Electrosonic’s parent company Helectron Oy Ab: “[…] Steve is extremely commercially orientated with significant international experience. Through his role as non-executive director and previous roles within the AV industry, he has a deep understanding of Electrosonic’s operations, culture and ethos.” (eap)